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• Julius

  [People]

  Julius was a Roman army centurion mentioned in Acts 27. He was responsible for escorting Paul, then a prisoner, from Caesarea to Rome.

• Patmos

  [Bible]

  Patmos is a small island in the southeastern Aegean Sea. According to the Book of Revelation, its author, John, was there on account of his testimony to the word of God when he received his revelation (Revelation 1:9).

• Genesis 17

  [Bible]

  Genesis 17 is the chapter in which God reestablishes His covenant with Abram at the age of ninety-nine. God changes the names of Abram and Sarai to Abraham and Sarah, commands circumcision as the sign of the covenant, and promises that Isaac will be born the following year.

• The Last Supper

  [Bible]

  The Last Supper was the final meal Jesus Christ shared with the twelve disciples on the night before his crucifixion. At this meal Jesus distributed the bread and the cup and spoke of the new covenant, and the church's Lord's Supper (Communion) originated with it.

• Gilead

  [Bible]

  Gilead is an Old Testament place name for the highland region east of the Jordan River. It was known for livestock raising and spices, and Scripture names it as the home of the judge Jephthah and the prophet Elijah.

• Brother Andrew

  [People]

  Brother Andrew (1928–2022) was a Dutch lay missionary. Known as "God's Smuggler" for secretly carrying Bibles into Communist countries during the Cold War, he began Open Doors, a mission organization that serves the persecuted church, in 1955.

• Mizpah

  [Bible]

  Mizpah is an Old Testament place name meaning "watchtower" or "lookout." Several places bore this name. The best known is Mizpah in the territory of Benjamin, where Samuel assembled Israel for repentance and prayer.

• John Bunyan

  [People]

  John Bunyan (1628–1688) was an English Puritan preacher and author. He is best known for *The Pilgrim's Progress*, written during his imprisonment. The book has also been among the most widely read devotional works in Korean Protestantism since its earliest years.

• John Paul II

  [People]

  John Paul II (1920–2005), a native of Poland, was the 264th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, reigning from 1978 to 2005. He was the first pope to visit Korea, where in 1984 he canonized 103 Korean martyrs.

• Dominic

  [People]

  Dominic (c. 1170–1221) was a Catholic priest from Castile who founded the Order of Preachers, known as the Dominican Order, which received papal approval in 1216. The Catholic Church venerates him as Saint Dominic.

• Perez

  [People]

  Perez was one of the twin sons born to Judah and Tamar. He is recorded in the genealogies of Ruth and Matthew 1 as an ancestor of David and of Jesus Christ.

• Francis Collins

  [People]

  Francis Collins (born 1950) is an American geneticist and physician. He led the Human Genome Project and the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). He promoted theistic evolution through his book *The Language of God* and through the BioLogos Foundation, which he founded.

• 2 Kings 23

  [Bible]

  2 Kings 23 records the reforms of King Josiah of Judah, who renewed the covenant according to the newly discovered book of the covenant, removed idols and high places, and kept the Passover. The chapter then recounts Josiah's death at Megiddo and the accession of Jehoahaz and Jehoiakim.

• Frank Schofield

  [People]

  Frank William Schofield (1889–1970) was an English-born Canadian Presbyterian medical missionary and veterinary scientist. He is known in Korea by his Korean name, Seok Ho-pil (石虎弼). His photographs and writings made the March First Movement and the Jeamni massacre known to the world, and he is widely called the "34th National Representative."

• Genesis 2:15

  [Bible Verses]

  Genesis 2:15 records that God placed the first man in the Garden of Eden to work it and to keep it. The verse is often cited in discussions of the meaning of work given before sin entered the world and of the idea that human beings are stewards who care for creation.

• Gregory I

  [People]

  Gregory I (c. 540–604) was bishop of Rome (pope) from 590 to 604. He is regarded as one of the leading Fathers of the Western Church and is also known as Gregory the Great.

• John R. Mott

  [People]

  John R. Mott (1865–1955) was an American Methodist lay leader. He led the Student Volunteer Movement, the YMCA, and the World Student Christian Federation, chaired the 1910 World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh, and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946.

• Hebrews 7

  [Bible]

  Hebrews 7 describes Melchizedek, king of Salem and priest, and teaches that the priesthood of Jesus after the order of Melchizedek is superior to the Levitical priesthood and is eternal.

• Dawson Trotman

  [People]

  Dawson Trotman (1906–1956) was an American evangelist. In 1933 he founded The Navigators, and he popularized an approach to discipleship centered on Scripture memorization and one-to-one follow-up.

• William Whittingham

  [People]

  William Whittingham (c. 1524–1579) was an English scholar and clergyman of Puritan sympathies. Exiled to Geneva under Mary I, he led the translation of the Geneva Bible and later served as Dean of Durham Cathedral.